Remove the requirement for the release notes to have copyright

The release notes doesn't have to have copyright header, it doesn't add
any value there as the release notes are useless outside the project.

(cherry picked from commit cb30d9892d45d23e19e15de6725bcd771ed5035f)

diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index 36e8e57f4553610acf1aa8b1fe6e45667d6fd1fe..b2e9cad9daf989628305b4535e92581eaff3d8c5 100644 (file)
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -1459,17 +1459,6 @@
 ./doc/misc/sort-options.pl                     PERL    2007,2012,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./doc/misc/static-stub.zoneopt                 X       2018,2019,2020
 ./doc/misc/stub.zoneopt                                X       2018,2019,2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.0.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.1.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.2.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.3.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.4.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.5.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.6.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.7.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.8.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-9.16.9.rst                   RST     2020
-./doc/notes/notes-current.rst                  RST     2020
 ./docutil/HTML_COPYRIGHT                       X       2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/MAN_COPYRIGHT                                X       2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/patch-db2latex-duplicate-template-bug        X       2007,2018,2019,2020

diff --git a/util/merge_copyrights b/util/merge_copyrights
index 9109ff929ec43853f114dfdd7a4d4dd6927aafaf..6530b4a3399da531c3c51402cc3daa6976799f8c 100644 (file)
--- a/util/merge_copyrights
+++ b/util/merge_copyrights
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ while (<CHANGES>) {
               \.conf\.in$ |    # configuration files
               /(dnssafe|openssl)/.*\.[ch]$ |   # imported
               doc/(draft|expired|rfc)/ |       # imported
+              doc/notes/ |     # release notes doesn't really need copyright
               \.*in$ |         # the generated documentation doesn't really need copyright
               grammar\.rst$ |  # -"-
               zoneopt\.rst$ |  # -"-